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Record Nr.

UNINA9910789517703321

Autore

Sinclair John McHardy <1933-2007.>

Titolo

English collocation studies [[electronic resource] ] : the OSTI report / / John M. Sinclair, Susan Jones and Robert Daley ; edited by Ramesh Krishnamurthy

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, : Continuum, c2004

ISBN

1-283-20716-8

9786613207166

1-4411-7634-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (239 p.)

Collana

Corpus and discourse. Studies in corpus and discourse

Altri autori (Persone)

JonesS

DaleyRobert

KrishnamurthyRamesh

Disciplina

425

Soggetti

Collocation (Linguistics)

English language - Grammar

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"Including a new interview with John M. Sinclair conducted by Wolfgang Teubert."

"The original of this publication is a Report of The University of Birmingham to the UK Government Office for Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI), entitled "English Lexical Studies" - the final report of the Project C/LP/08, dated January 1970."--T.p. verso.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [203]-204) and index.

Nota di contenuto

section 1. Background -- section 2. Texts -- section 3. Significant collocation -- section 4. Frequent words -- section 5. Collocational patterns of selected lexical items -- section 6. Identifying lexical items -- section 7. Discrimination between two texts using strength of collocation as a discriminant.

Sommario/riassunto

This is the first published edition of John Sinclair, Susan Jones and Robert Daley's research on collocation undertaken in 1970. The unpublished report was circulated amongst a small group of academics and was enormously influential, sparking a growth of interest in collocation amongst researchers in linguistics. Collocation was first viewed as important in computational linguistics in the work of Harold Palmer in Japan. Later M.A.K. Halliday and John Sinclair published on



collocation in the 1960s. English Collocation Studies is a report on empirical research into collocation, devised by Halli